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Thread: i hear that garmin have a tool that helps you find that deer on that slip

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    Smile i hear that garmin have a tool that helps you find that deer on that slip

    i have heard something about a garmin wrist worn tool , that when you ( say ) shoot a deer from the ridge you are on , to the slip way the fck over there , you just point to where the deer went into the scrub on the slip , and then just start making you down into the gut , then up the other side to where you where pointing , and some how the wrist tool keeps you ontrack , to the spot where the 26 point stag shot into the srcub .
    All meaning , to me , not leaving my mate at spot A , shouting at me , and waving , like a fool in some sort of invented semaphore .
    Anyone know anything about this ?
    cheers
    lres

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    Many of the topo apps and gps units etc have a tool that does this. Often called ‘sight and go’ or ‘go to’.

    Basically input the distance and compass bearing, and it will project a waypoint on the map for you.
    veitnamcam and Micky Duck like this.

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    I had one called a track back...You mark a way point where you start and whereever you go it tells you how far and in what direction your start point was and if you know how far your shot was you can figure out where it landed pretty easy...Well that was the theory behind it....It did not really work as well as advertised....
    Intelligence has its limits, but it appears that Stupidity knows no bounds......

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    Ive got one of those somewhere, made by bushnel I think
    may be sarcastic may be a bad joke

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    @StrikerNZ nailed it. I can just point my handheld at it and enter the distance and it will put it on the map. Assuming the others are like this too? Although it will most likely be wasted on me as I don't get the opportunity to use that function.

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    There’s also another great product out there, forget what it’s called, but they are furry and are your friend and basically smell where the deer is for you. Someone will remember what they’re called. They are powered by meat and biscuits and general rubbish around your house like shoes and broken golf balls.

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    It depeends on getting a very accurate compass bearing. You can end up quite along way out left or right.

    And on taking a couple of minutes to set it up carefully before you rush off looking for the dead deer.

    Two other things you should do as a back up are:
    Put put a bright marker where you shot from and take a back bearing when you get near spot B.
    Take a zoomed in photo of said spot B and use an edit function to draw a mark on it where the deer was. Practice first.

 

 

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